Hinds Is Living It Up

Irish actor Ciaran Hinds is having a banner year, appearing in five acclaimed new films and sharing center stage on Broadway in the hit play, The Seafarer. In his latest flick, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Hinds plays a reformed playboy with love on his mind. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the film's co-stars Amy Adams and Lee Pace about bringing the film to life.

LAST year was a breakout one for Irish actor Ciaran Hinds, 55, the year in which the Belfast-born character actor finally - and deservedly - joined Hollywood's big leagues. Featured in a string of critically acclaimed new films, Hinds has proven himself to be remarkably versatile talent, making him one of the world's most respected actors.

Seen recently in the 2008 Best Picture contender There Will Be Blood, Hinds has also recently starred in In Bruges and Margot at the Wedding, and he's currently appearing on Broadway in Irish playwright Conor McPherson's hit play The Seafarer.

On March 7, Hinds will next be seen in the irresistible romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, co-starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand and the new Hollywood It girl Amy Adams. Can you find a new life and discover your true love all in one day, Hinds' new film asks? Well yes, you can - in the movies, anyway.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a big budget, fast paced screwball comedy set in London in 1939 where Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) plays a dowdy governess who gets fired from one job and the next day goes to work for Delysia Lafosse, a famous young actress.

Prim Miss Pettigrew is a vicar's daughter who suddenly finds herself surrounded by racy types, and at first she's appalled by the loose living young actress she finds herself working for, especially when it involves covering up Delysia's multiple affairs.

But although Miss Pettigrew's a bit of a stick in the mud, she has lots of worthwhile common sense and soon she becomes Delysia's social secretary, sorting out Delysia's life and - in the end - her own too. It's the kind of wisecracking comedy caper that Hollywood used to make in its heyday, and the surprise is how well this Cinderella for adults story works in 2008.

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